The day after Fabio Fognini said that he has been seeing a sports psychologist
— the wife of his coach, as it turns out — he was involved in an
expletive-filled on-court exchange that resulted in him demanding the
suspension of the umpire and, chastened, accepting a fine of $10,000 (about
£6,000) for the outburst. The supervisor had to push down his arm as he
pointed angrily at the man in the chair. Great Britain’s Davis Cup tie in
Italy next month promises to be particularly spicy.

To describe Fognini as a character is much like saying that Rafael Nadal has a